past week has been fun even though its been raining non-stop

tuesday- nlb to borrow library books (: played the word game heheh. shared my umbrella with random strangers on the way home, the last being a 9th-floor neighbour by coincidence! shoes were soaked through, had to wear my new pair to school on wed (which was just cca, no lessons lol)

thursday after lessons, watched my-girlfriend-is-an-agent which is much more lighthearted than my sister's keeper, a hilarious movie even though the plot was very weak. went back to sch to meet some interactors for service...and found out there wasn't. oops. so we explored serangoon gardens in the rain and ended up at chompchomp where we ate satay & random stuff yummy good food :D took buses home with waynechan- discovered that day its impossible to shelter someone 31cm taller than me :X

and, today! ponned 'slight fever' in the morning then went to school for STEAMBOAT LUNCH. pam & weifeng brought portable stoves & pots, and a01c went shopping in ntuc for foooood. cooked in the canteen, prepared food at the wash areas hehe everyone was staring in envy and disbelief. I recall one teacher's double-take when she realized what we were doing. some friends dropped by to share the food- we had a lot of leftovers. hahah first steamboat in rj history probably (zomg i miss outdoor cooking in rg!!)

SOMEONE STOLE MY UMBRELLA FROM MY BAG WHILE I WAS HAVING STEAMBOAT ): that person opened my bag where my wallet & handphone pouch was stored! thank god its still with me! i guess he/she must have been desperate but is it necessary to resort to such measures D: only discovered the theft when i was walking home from the bus stop in the rain...soaked. again. LOL I FAIL AT LIFE HUILING WAS HOLDING ON TO IT FOR ME

dinner & 2012 laterr (:

just walked home through the mother of all flash floods, sheltering a maid who was carrying bags of groceries from the bus stop to the blocks of flats. she turns out to be a 9th floor neighbour heh.
completely soaked and I hope my shoes can dry in time for tomorrrow (:

was just looking at photos of the sec 4 bio option this year- we were sitting at the exact same pavilion in botanic gardens last year! and they took a photo of mr chia in a similar pose to the one I took last year lol. nostalgia...

school's restarting tmr, math lecture first block so cannot oversleep ):
i don't have lessons on wednesday but there's interact in the afternoon so i'll still have to go to sch sigh

on the bright side, my brother won the mcdonald's voucher- buy 2 get 2 free on board superstar virgo, which my mum decided was a good enough offer for a last-minute cruise booking. i'll be ponning the last two days of school :D

 PW IS OVER OVER OVER OVER OVER OVER OVER OVER OVER OVER OVER LIFE IS FULL OF SUNSHINE AND RAINBOWS

it rained during OP, and when we came out, the sun was shining!!!!!

rj240: well done (: (:

(wish i could have gone for guides farewell today!!!)

MSK with half my pw group & random classmates sobs non-stop, but the girls were having a feast on junk food yumyum :P

q&a: how can your action plan (financial education for youth) be applied to less developed countries in the region?
haha tell me how you would answer that -.-

Yesterday afternoon was the House of Steamboat  at bugis with shimin, kexin, dom and shide, soup was really good! I really love the beef yumyum we should go for another soon :D Met up with the other classmates to shop for drinks & snacks, then headed to sentosa for Spooktacular! Queued for more than 2 hours in wet weather, but it was fun taking photos with the spirits (lol burger patty and red paint stains) and looking at people who were all dressed up in various costumes (hot legs sailormoon crossdresser zomg!!!) ((:  

The actual haunted house was more amusing than scary- I was having a fun time watching classmates get freaked out (by me too, when i decided to sit around random spots, tired from standing for so long, while chatting with the haunted house characters). Kexin was screaming her head off. And looking on as Peranakan Ghost stroked shimin was very funny hehe sorry but I AM NOT A PSYCHOPATH. I was just trying to make the most of it :P

Those staying over reached Siloso beach at like 1am, and I'm so glad the wave house shop opens til so late because my slippers broke. Set up camp opposite the toilets near cafe del mar. We surrounded ourselves with a ring of tealights, its superbly pretty!! cards & random stuff throughout the whole morning, pretty much alone on that stretch of beach. burger pillow is awesome heh. Didn't get to watch sunrise though ):

Vivo for breakfast then home, managed to wash the groundsheets and take a much-needed shower before I crashed for the entire afternoon.

ALL THE BEST to those taking Chinese A's tomorrow! especially those who stayed over -.^ 

 tuition kid cancelled on me (bet she wanted to go out & play too) so I slacked the whole day at home-
did some photoshop stuff- new blog layout! and something else ;)

i've got a sore throat and cough for the past few days...
op dry run on friday was expected- as usual I screw up my own part because I cannot do public speaking for nuts, need to get it up to standard by 11 November.

shopping with shiqi after that before heading back to bishan to play badminton with the class & dinner at s11.

promos results on monday; doomsday

HAPPY DEEPAVALI BIRTHDAY CRYSTFOO :D 


( excesses of the past week )

math was the worst exam paper i've ever sat for. 
all the practise and late nights and free block math mugging = useless when I didnt even understand what the questions wanted.

how screwed you ask? i completed about 3 out of 13 multiple-part questions. 

all I want is an overall E, please?
with the B for cts there is a glimmer of hope: a. very. faint. one. (minor sentences ftw)
just, no S and U please, though my promos result slip is going to be so different from cts 

anyway, aim high for ELL :) the last paper give it your best shot

 3 hours of history, 4 essays, 12 sides
hand was swollen (jermaine massaged it heheh one day i shall set up a post-exam hand spa) and i couldn't read my own handwriting afterwards ohwell.

at least going back to school on sunday with dominic was worth it, 8 hours of concentration instead of slacking at home

also, test at 0.1% significance level whether I am going to fail math and ell

2 papers down, 3 more to go

gp and econs were really so-so sit on the fence it goes both ways 

i want my gpa hahah wishful thinking. 

going to fail math and screw history nothing is going into brain i think i've hit saturation point
sigh go sleep

85% of the grade c'mon you must make it 

from a Young PAP blogpost:

"Have we no self-respect or do we totally lack the ability to think for ourselves that we should sink so low as to be devotees of everything white"

how true indeed! maybe its time the PAP changed their uniform colour?
reading poltiics in st is so depressing. surely millions of $ can get us something better...

today was horrible: came down with mind-numbing cramps on the train to school, hands were shaking so badly when i smsed hannah. threw up my breakfast when i reached ughhh. and pe teacher sent me to GO to rest, together with pam & huiling, the two other girls who showed up for PE (8/25 attendance = awesome) i think i got food poisoning :/ spent freeblock in this room with plush sofas resting, felt a lot better! i miss rgs sick bay though... ell gang was wonderful <3333 thank you jermaine for your jacket i think you better wash it though :/ weekend was spent mugging (12 hours of math in school on monday) & compiling Suave Shide's Super Sensational Seventeenth Surprise! a mix cd from some a01c classmates who recorded a birthday song for him. birthday boy received this gigantic Piglet from paul. h2 math tutor sat it on the chair and gave it the functions revision worksheet:


taking tonight off to rest & recover, intense mugging & pw will resume tmr :D

The PAP is exactly 38 years older than me (RIJC History Department, 2009). <-- I cited properly! pw teacher will be so proud of me yes.

history isn't going into my brain, econs grades are falling falling falling...pure math is pure evil

On the bright side, ELL paper 1 pulled up to an A from an E, hope I maintain it during real exam conditions.

13.5 days to Promos, 7.5 days to WR submission

 where did the productivity of the June holidays go?

into pw maybe.

promos in less than 20 days, school's reopening tomorrow

i came online only to discover jeremy(tan) already collated all the csl hours ahh thank you :D

spent the whole weekend on math; no improvement. helpppppppp

hmm, more math now? or econs

econs tutorial, where mr pan showed us some ~quotes~ we can use to spice up our essays:

"Laws are like sausages — it is best not to see them being made" -Otto Von Bismarck
"Laws are like babies..." -Chua Shi Min

been staying back late past two days for PW. amira bought prata after she broke fast ytd, yummy :D consultation ended at 9pm today, exhausted

& if you haven't seen miss singapore world 2009, this is epic

my cousin mass-emailed an article about relationships; here's an excerpt:

Do I feel safe expressing my feelings and thoughts with this person? Feeling safe means you can communicate openly with this person. The basis of having good communication is trust i.e. trust that I won't get 'punished'; or hurt for expressing my honest thoughts and feelings. A colleague of mine defines an abusive person as someone with whom you feel afraid to express your thoughts and feelings. Be honest with yourself on this one.

Another perspective...There are some people in your life that need to be loved from a distance.. It ' s amazing what you can accomplish when you let go of or at least minimize your time with draining, negative, uncompatible, not going anywhere relationships. Observe the relationships around you. Pay attention...Which ones lift and which ones lean? Which ones encourage and which ones discourage? Which ones are on a path of growth uphill and which ones are going downhill? When you leave certain people do you feel better or feel worse? Which ones don ' t appreciate you? Which ones make you feel good, praises you, boosts you with loving and caring words or annotations.

The more you seek quality, respect, growth, peace of mind, love and truth around you...the easier it will become for you to decide who gets to sit in the front row and who should be moved to the balcony of your life.

very true (:

 swensen's ice-cream buffet with amelia today and it was awesome dessert heaven cakes waffles cakes icecream icecream fondue yay

i'm not going to touch desserts for the next few weeks though x)
& i'm glad we caught up with each others lives, its been more than a year since we went out.

gosh i can't believe three-quarters of 2009 is over

and i even mugged for the upcoming ELL test on thursday! but there's econs test on wednesday ):

tday was quite awful; i think the video was the best part? bunch of us went to buy godiva chocolate for miss lim and we got free samples :D :D :D (from someone who can't afford this kind of chocolate)

i miss rgs teachers day celebrations! still remember two years ago, brothers of laffles academy performance was fantastic

 hmm seems like you never have time for old friends

my specs were broken during PE when shide & I were fighting for the ball. ooooops
spent the day half-blind & managed to survive ELL presentation (yay group 1!!) mr kwok's lecture pw math econs

then hannah accompanied me home so i wouldn't get knocked down by oncoming vehicles, got my spare spectacles.
thank you very much(:

dhoby ghaut for class dinner, where the girls ate Unhealthy Food (chippy!!) while the boys & miss lim went to the food court. but then climbing insane flights of steps to mt sophia burns off calories (not much though)
the cinema is super cool there are red sofas for seats and we just sprawled all over them. so so relaxing 
yay our class learning journey pwns those who go to some SAF thing 

half the class went to the body shop sale, train with the purple-line people and got a lift home from shide no waiting for bus yay

i shall start with a01c's bbq on 11th aug. about half the class turned up which was fantastic, considering there was term paper due the next day when half the class was absent from school
i had a great time (: we tried burning all sorts of random things to keep the fire going- macs paper bags have some copper? element- the fire turned green (science people please refresh my memory) val's latex skirt being tossed around and lucy being crazy (which reminds me, boxers incident during GP!!)
and there's even a moral to the whole thing! don't burn bridges before you cross them, or Keep adequate supply of fire starters so you don't have to borrow from the people you chased out of the function room, even if they generously donated them.

the chicken wings were awesome.

14th aug was enrolment/striping 09, refer to previous post.

rppp cancelled on 17th so i joined ecstacy for breakfast at amk macs, it's been a long time since i went there with them.

19th was miss lim's birthday surprise and batchproject day.
we thought she already guessed because we asked her to keep the cake in the staffroom -.- and there are no august babies in our class. plus on monday we were doing the puzzle in the canteen after school when she sat down with us for 45 min. this resulted in Suspicious Behavior (could tell she didn't believe jeremy had a use for a pink photo frame) and hiding the puzzle in my file which was not a good idea when the glue hadn't dried completely. it was a nice surprise though, and mr kwok crashed joined us in our celebrations:



didn't get to eat the cake though, ran off to meet my batchproject group at marymount.
felt v accomplished even though i missed the 12th aug one ):
i enjoyed manning a pizza counter, the kids enjoyed the food. very rowdy and noisy during the workshop- some remembered me from their nday celebrations even though i didn't interact with them much. i'm really grateful to my groupmates for conducting the workshop and doing impromptu skits! exhausting though, instead of fighting the lakeside mrt crowd we went opposite to joo koon, where there are no residential zones it is surreal.
thank you, and lots of love to amanda yuxin chengchia wayne lincoln (: + all the non-interactors who came down to help!

21st: Interact Installation 09. everyth<3 decor comm, especially the candle-making crazy fun in the science lab, which is probably the only time i'll ever step into one in rj. and thank-yous to daniel for single-(mouthed)ly blowing up 30 balloons even though you had logs to settle, and also for bursting all the balloons (sigh) with wayne when installation ended.

the rotarian is so freaking tall, the tallest guys in the club come to his shoulders only! i'm at his elbows, what an achievement :D
the video was super funny, especially our part- csl volunteers ftw!
our new club collar pin is the largest collar pin i've ever set my eyes on. "i feel this additional weight on my shoulder"-wayne

22nd- MINDS Sports Day, kudos to that batch project group for organizing such a huge event with only five people after the others quit interact! it was a very new experience, leading a group of adults/kids with intellectual capacities of very young children. GERMANY <3 the sun was uber hot and everyone was tired out at the end, but we had fun :D